What do you think of this family house rule?

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People in the house are not allowed to come downstairs in the morning without being fully dressed/clean and moderately groomed.

This does not apply to school kids during the week. But at the weekends/school holidays memebers of the household are not allowed to be in pyjamas. They can veg out on the sofa but they have to be groomed and in clean clothes. Trackies are allowed.

Why do you have harsher rules during days off work/school?

Totally unnecessary in my book.

No chance

Batshit and controlling

Why? Home is the place you should feel most relaxed.

The rule around weekdays is more so that the kids don’t have to eat in their uniforms.

Ridiculous.

Why?

Sounds like a nightmare

I voted YABU on the assumption this is the OP's house.

I think people should be able to wear what they like in their own home. I do tell my kids to get dressed at some point during the weekend days but that's usually so that we can go out

I wouldn’t be having that.
Ridiculous.

Doesn’t everyone in the whole world go and make coffee in their dressing gowns before they do anything else? No way I’d be dressed before coffee, especially on a weekend.

in our household, people gave breakfast in their pyjamas, and then get dressed. We’ve never had a hard and fast rule, as such, but we’ve never. Been a household where pyjamas were day wear (unless ill) so I don’t think it’s bad at all. I presume when you say groomed you mean washed, teeth brushed etc.

IMO tracksuits are worse than pyjamas.

Tbh, I feel sorry for any kids in the house. In the grand-scheme of issues...this is not the hill that I, as a parent, would die on.

Horses for courses I suppose. I do normally feel better if I get up washed and dressed before coming down. Just do what suits you

Utterly fucking mental. Where do you live, Queen Victoria’s court?

That is insane, and controlling if an adult in the household is insisting other family members obey this rule.

If it’s problematic to eat in uniform then it’s problematic to eat in the clothes they will wear at the weekend.

I think the rule is controlling as I can’t see a reason for it.

Depends on the definition of ‘rule’.

if this is set up so people get up and get dressed and “ready” for the day and it creates good habits - fine as I certainly have a “pj mentality” if I start the day off too long in PJs and I am less productive lol.
so is it about creating good habits for kids/teens?

if it’s strictly enforced in some sort of seriously over the top way then I would say, no - not good.

Do what suits you is grand. But enforcing it on others is not.

I'm a dressing gown coffee drinker myself, then I'll get dressed.

What do I think? I think it's pathetic.

It sounds like an American tv show where everyone has been up for ages, appears in the kitchen dressed and ‘groomed’, run some errands and been for a run and had a chat with the neighbours, before whipping up some pancakes. All before school and work.

what if you’re up and hungry, but someone else is in the bathroom?!?

What is the reasoning behind such a rule?
Any exemptions if you are unwell?

What about in the evening, are members allowed to gave a bath/shower and then come downstairs to eg watch tv/eat a snack, in pjs or dressing gown?

Wtf?

If someone told.me I had to be 'groomed' before coming downstairs in my own house is think they were either batshit - or madly controlling/borderline abusive.

It's anal and controlling.